The Reclining Buddha

The City of Angels - and the Soundtrack of Purgatory

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August 30th 2008
We have spent bits and pieces of the last few weeks in Bangkok. Its full name proclaims it as - among other things- the City of Angels, but for us it has served us mostly as a transit hub for the rest of Southeast Asia. Our first night in Bangkok was a few weeks ago, when we checked into the same hotel as Sarah and Bob in the neighborhood of Banglumphu, an older part of town convenient to man ... read more

Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Bangkok

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more